‘Buhari must get rid of terrorists in 6 months,’ Cleric says

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June 1, 2015 8:52 AM

Idowu-Fearon stated further that the feat could be achieved if Buhari sanitized the armed forces and made sure the nation’s troops were well equipped to deal with the terrorism menace.

President Muhammadu Buhari

The Diocesan Bishop of the Kaduna Diocese of Anglican communion, Josiah Idowu-Fearon has said that President Muhammadu Buhari must defeat Boko Haram within his first six months in office.

The cleric made the statements on Sunday, May 31, 2015, during the 20th synod of the church.

“Mr. President is advised to sanitise the armed forces, get them well equipped, and flush out the remaining Boko Haram insurgents within his first six months in office. Within the first six months, we expect Mr. President to have achieved something to give some hope to Nigerians. We suggest he make fuel available by removing subsidy so as to use the billions being paid to marketers who, in spite of that, hold Nigerians to ransom,” he said.

“We suggest to the President to get the companies responsible for the power sector to either make power generation and distribution effective, or set up an appropriate, trustworthy and action-oriented machinery within constitutional provisions to re-evaluate their contracts,” he added.

“The situation you are inheriting is so bad that you should not expect any period of honey moon: security is not there, power supply is at its lowest level, queues at our filling stations hardly ever disappear in spite of the payment of subsidy to those importing fuel, we hear that in some states and some Federal Government departments, salaries have not been paid for months,” the cleric said.

“We want to state the obvious so as to give the President some ideas for his consideration and action. It is obvious, the stakes are high; Nigerians who voted for you have a very high expectancy level. You cannot afford to fail by disappointing them,” he added.

Buhari, who was sworn in on Friday, May 29, has promised to deal with the sect but warned Nigerians not to expect miracles.

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